[arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Tue Nov 20 02:34:45 EST 2012


On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 22:45 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Is 
> the 
> user 
> that's 
> supposed 
> to 
> be 
> able 
> to 
> use 
> mpd 
> in 
> the 
> audio 
> group? 
>  
> If 
> not, 
> it 
> may 
> help 
> to 
> add 
> the 
> user 
> to 
> audio. 
>  
> Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and 
> mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem.

The link in the original mail does provide a link that says: "Don’t add
your user to the “audio” group" -
http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/

Regards,
Ralf



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